RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 132 ?

~760 BCE·Neo-Assyrian·P392218

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392218.

Transliteration

_[...]-hi#-a#_ sza2# [...]
[...] it#-ti _erin2-hi-a kur#_ [...]
[...]-ti# isz-kun-szu2-nu-ti t,e3#-[x x]
[...] un#-da-si ki-a-am iq#-[x]
[...]-szur# ter-[x]
[...] _ad#_ ba-ni-[x]
[...]-ru#-u at-ta#-me-tu ne2#-e#-[x]
[...]_-mu#-gi-na# szesz_ nak-ri#
[...]-ru#-u-ni har-ra-nu#
[...]-reb# su-man-dir
[...] tah#-ta-szu2-un
[...] _lugal#_ elam-ma
[...]-ta-me-tu
[...]-nim#-ma

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — RINAP 5/1 Ashurbanipal 003, ex. 132 ?. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (P392218) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P392218..

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